Preschool Calendar Time

We try and do calendar every day. I will be honest, calendar time, is not my favorite. But it is such a great way to teach so many basic skills so I push through it. We have our rhythm with it so we usually can cover all of it pretty quickly and it is great daily reinforement for the girls.

 This is what our calendar looks like. My pocket chart calendar is a DIY project. It orginally was a cheap mini pocket chart from the Dollar Tree. Then I just stitched lines down it with my sewing machine for the days. Easy Peasy and it works perfectly! Last year I had seasonal numbers and we would count the apples or count the leaves, pumpkins, etc. But this year I left our numbers blank with grey font. We talk about what the day is and trace the number on the correct card. Then we have two colors for this month. You see the blue and yellow crayon at the top of the chart? Those are our colors for August. We are making an AB pattern with those colors. Each month will be different colors and pattern. But once we trace the number, we color in the box.  I usually let my youngest do that part. 

Both girls have a notebook but my 4 1/2 year old enjoys it the most. She writes in it daily as we do the big calendar together. It is great fine motor practice for her...writing the numeral, coloring in the box, etc.

Work at the table....or on the table.... whatever works.

 Then we check the weather. I made my graph for one week only. The sheet is in a page protector so they use a dry erase marker and X the weather for the day. On Friday, we look back and read and analyze our graph.
We have songs we sing for the months/years/seasons. But they do draw a line through or circle on their sheet. 

And SONGS!! These are the only way I get through calendar. We sing! The weather song actually changes every day but we sing these months/days songs pretty much every day. There are so many more out there. Learning Station has great songs for days/months! 

If you are interested in the our calendar notebook, you can check it out by clicking on the picture below! It's on sale today!